Mark 9:50, “Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith
will ye season it?
Have salt in
yourselves,
and have peace one with another.”
The Bible says salt is good. But if salt has lost its saltiness,
then it is useless. Jesus said in Mark 9:50 to HAVE SALT IN
YOURSELVES! Salt makes the human body thirsty. This is why
you'll always see a soda vending machine next to a chip vending
machine. The salty chips make people thirsty. As Christians we are
supposed to make the lost world thirsty to have what we have. This
is what the Lord means in Mark 9:50.
Notice that Jesus finished Mark 9:50 by admonishing us to HAVE PEACE
ONE WITH ANOTHER. The world doesn't want any part of the fighting
and hatred in many churches today. Sadly, there's much scuttlebutt,
slandering and bickering all over the internet these days from our
Baptist churches. The internet is a weapon, whether for good or
evil. Many people use the internet as a weapon to destroy others.
Proverbs 11:9, “An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his
neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.”
It is also true that a hypocrite with his fingers destroyeth his
neighbour via the internet. God hates gossip and slander, whether
true or false. The world wants no part of the hatred, fighting and
slandering which has infected many of our Independent Baptist
Churches today. Jesus told us in Mark 9:50 to HAVE PEACE ONE WITH
ANOTHER!
Do you have salt in you? Does your life and words make other
people thirsty for the things of God? Matthew 5:16, “Let your
light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Our life either causes
other people to glorify God or curse God. The unsaved world doesn't
see the Holy Spirit, but they do see our manner of life as
Christians. What does our life say to them? Always remember that you
are the only Jesus that someone knows. Listen to what famous author
Mark Twain once said...
“If
Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be, a Christian.”
―Mark Twain,
Notebook
May our lives all reflect the Lord Jesus Christ Who lives within
us (1st Corinthians 3:16-17; Romans 8:9). The world is confused
about everything today. They don't know which way to go. We know
from the Scriptures that Jesus is the only way, the truth and the
life (John 14:6). The world needs to hear about the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. That is the GOOD NEWS, which is what the word Gospel
means. It is our duty as Christians to proclaim the Glad Tidings of
Christ crucified, buried and risen (Romans 10:15). Amen and amen!
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) makes the awesome following
observation from the Old Testament . . .
The only hope for America
is for soul winners to get busy winning souls and for leaders to get
busy preaching personal holiness so that God will enter with us into
a covenant of salt and will spare our land!
Now notice Genesis 19:26, "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt." Why was Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt? There
was not enough salt in the city to cause a covenant of salt. When a city was
taken in battle, its destruction was finalized when the conqueror would sow it
with savourless salt. What a symbol this is! Savourless salt will not spare a
nation; it causes its destruction!
SOURCE: Dr. Jack Hyles,
The Salvation Of A Nation, from the book,
Salvation Is More Than Being Saved.
To have salt in ourselves means more than just lifestyle
evangelism, that is, trying to win lost sinners to Christ through
our influence alone. The Bible teaches confrontational soul-winning,
that is, approaching lost sinners with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The salt is the Word of God. The world needs to see AND HEAR the
Words of God living through us.
Colossians 4:6, “Let your speech
be alway with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer
every man.” We ought to read, hear, study, meditate and memorize
the Words of God.
HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES!!!
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say
again
that you did not know.”
―William Wilberforce
